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Rich Pauloo
I have coded workflows that stream real-time data from remote sensor networks, built dashboards to bring clarity to massive datasets, developed physical simulation models of groundwater flow and contaminant transport, made visualizations to improve machine learning interpretability, and built R packages.
I am currently searching for positions where I can work on technical, challenging, data-intensive problems for the betterment of society.
Education
PhD. Candidate, Hydrogeology
University of California Davis
Davis, CA
2020 - 2015
- 3D physical simulation of groundwater flow & solute transport.
- NSF fellow in Climate Change, Water, and Society IGERT.
- Elected representative in the Graduate Student Assembly.
- Built groundwaterstatement.org, signed by over 1,000 groundwater experts worldwide.
B.S., Integrative Biology (minor in Conflict Resolution)
University of California Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
2011 - 2006
- Delivered departmental commencement speech to ~ 5,000 people.
Selected Positions
Graduate Student Researcher
Fogg Lab
UC Davis
2020 - 2015
- Work with large hydrologic datasets, numerical groundwater flow and contaminant transport models, & network optimization models.
- Developed novel models of well failure, groundwater salinization, and contaminant transport in porous media.
- Regularly use R, Python, Git, Bash, MODFLOW, RW3D, Paraview, Illustrator, AWS, Linux, ArcGIS, Envi, LaTeX.
Data Lab Researcher
Computational Institute for Geodynamics (CIG)
UC Davis
2019 - 2018
- NLP, text mining, and network analysis in R on a corpus of ~600 PDFs.
- Developed an R Shiny dashboard to understand the corpus.
- Results published here.
Selected Writing
A low cost, open source wireless sensor network for real-time groundwater monitoring
N/A
2020
- Calderwood, A. & Pauloo, R. & Yoder, A. & Fogg, G.E.
Domestic Well Vulnerability to Drought Duration and Unsustainable Groundwater Management in California’s Central Valley
Environmental Research Letters, 10.1088/1748-9326/ab6f10
N/A
2020
- Pauloo, R. & Dahlke, H. & Escriva-Bou, A. & Fencl, A. & Guillon, H. & Fogg, G.E.
Assessing Impact of Outreach through Software Citation for Community Software in Geodynamics
Computing in Science & Engineering, 10.1109/MCSE.2019.2940221
N/A
2019
- Hwang, L. & Pauloo, R. & Carlen, J.